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khadgamala

खड्गमाला khaḍgamālā

The 'garland of the sword,' a Srividya litany that names in order the deities and powers of the enclosures of the Sri Yantra, used in worship.

Where this term appears

  • What is the Sri Yantra? Lineages

    …puram, Mani Rao gives ninety-eight locations for the goddesses of the Khadgamala , the garland of names that maps them onto the figure, where one practitioner placed his mantra at each in turn, moving up and ba…

  • Devipuram and the Open-Access Model Treatise

    The Khadgamala goddesses went in gradually between 1988 and 1994, each one sculpted to his specification: "As she revealed each goddess to me, I would translate those visions to the sculptor in words and drawin…

  • The Chariot Treatise

    Each enclosure has a specific structural identity, a specific group of deities, a specific chakra name , and a specific mantric formula in the Devi Khadgamala Stotra .

  • The Court Treatise

    The Devi Khadgamala Stotra - the Garland of the Sword - names all of them in order, from the outermost enclosure inward.

  • The Manuals Treatise

    Eight hundred verses, plus some scattered portions like the khadgamala mantras and the sahasranama stotras, divided into two principal parts.

  • The Nuclear Scientist and the Temple Treatise

    …vels, would stand life-size murtis of every goddess named in the Devi Khadgamala Stotra - the inventory of the goddesses of the Sri Chakra’s nine enclosures.

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